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Stop Choking Your Hard Drive: The Lightroom External Drive Workflow That Keeps Your System Fast

I run Photoshop from a coffee shop table most days, which means my laptop is doing a lot of heavy lifting on not a lot of real estate. For a long time I treated my internal drive like a junk drawer, just dumping everything on it and wondering why things got sluggish around deadline. It wasn’t until I watched this older KelbyOne tutorial, PhotoshopUser TV Episode 293{target="_blank"}, that I realized my file management habits were basically sabotaging my own machine.

September 9, 2026

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Finally! Lightroom Classic Gets a Duplicate Finder (And Why You Should Be Careful With It)

Adobe Finally Listens to Years of Complaints You know that feeling when you import photos and realize you’ve accidentally duplicated half your shoot? Yeah, photographers have been begging Adobe to fix that headache for what feels like forever. Well, good news: Lightroom Classic just got a Duplicate Finder feature, and it’s actually pretty solid. But here’s the thing—just because the tool exists doesn’t mean you should go full scorched-earth on your photo library.

July 1, 2026

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Adobe's Latest Lightroom Classic Update: Finally, a Feature We Actually Needed

Adobe’s Latest Lightroom Classic Update: Finally, a Feature We Actually Needed Look, I’ve been using Lightroom Classic long enough to know that not every update is created equal. Some feel like Adobe just threw darts at a feature board and shipped whatever stuck. But this latest release? This one actually addresses something photographers have been begging for since the invention of the memory card. Duplicate Detection: The Feature That Should’ve Shipped Years Ago Let me be blunt: duplicate detection arriving in 2026 feels simultaneously overdue and genuinely exciting.

June 20, 2026